SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY

SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized elementary-level community in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, one of the schools within ALBUQUERQUE. The school instructs 402 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% bigger than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 20% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Native American, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Bernalillo County's rate of about 90%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bernalillo County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bernalillo County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students), of which SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: JAMES MONROE MIDDLE, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY has fell 44%, going from 720 students in 2018 to 402 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for SIERRA VISTA ELEMENTARY typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.